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  • Offsite: Quimby's Night at LiveWire Lounge: 3 Songs, 3 Writers Reading About Those Songs 3/22

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    The LiveWire Lounge (3394 N Milwaukee) asked Quimby’s if we wanted to curate a night at their lounge. And we said yes. So this is what we’re bringing, a themed mix of reading and music with a very specific focus:

    Quimby’s Night at LiveWire Lounge: 3 Songs, 3 Writers Reading About Those Songs

    Original Readings by:

    Mike “McBeardo” McPadden, reading about Kiss Me Deadly by Generation X
    Celia Forrest, reading about Black and White by the DBs
    Dan Kelly, reading about X Offender by Blondie

    All 3 songs performed by The Blue Ribbon Glee Club

    Celia Forrest is a writer, director, teacher and actress who was born and raised in Fairbanks, Alaska. She is a new mother and couldn’t shut up about it if she tried. She is well-known in Minnesota for her work teaching theater to kids and her award-winning turn in Neil Labute’s Fat Pig. In Chicago she is mostly known for her sketch comedy writing and directing, as well for her work on The People’s Republic of Edward Snowden. Celia is also famous in a subset of radical activists as a co-host of Morning Damnit, the morning news and talk show on Q4 Radio, and the weekly program The Celia and Erik Show, which features comedy, commentary and interviews with local artists. Find her on Twitter at twitter.com/thatcelia

    Mike “McBeardo” McPadden is the author of Heavy Metal Movies: Guitar Barbarians, Mutant Bimbos, and Cult Zombies Amok in the 666 Most Ear- and Eye-Ripping Big Scream Films Ever! (Bazillion Points, 2014) and the upcoming Going All the Way: The Ultimate Guide to Teen Sex Comedy Films of the VHS Era (Bazillion Points, 2016). You will love him. More info at mcbeardo.com.

    Dan Kelly is the author of Hilaretic. He is not to be confused with the Australian judoka and mixed martial artist Dan Kelly. He occasionally writes for The Baffler and Gapers Block. He blogs at mrdankelly.com/blog.

    The Blue Ribbon Glee Club is Chicago’s punk rock a capella glee club, and regularly performs songs by Fugazi, Gang of Four, the Dead Kennedys, the Buzzcocks and more.

    Please note: This event is NOT at Quimby’s. It is at the LIVEWIRE LOUNGE | 3394 N MILWAUKEE AVE, CHICAGO, IL

    Facebook event post can be found here.LiveWire Lounge

  • New Stuff This Week

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    $pread: The Best of the Magazine that Illuminated the Sex Industry and Started a Media Revolution ed. by Audacia Ray, Eliyanna Kaiser & Rachel Aimee (The Feminist Press) $24.95 – Stories from and about $pread, published by and for sex workers, from 2005-2011.

    Zines
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    Notorious RBG A Fanzine $2.00 – Ruth Bader Ginsburg in da house. Contains poems by Amber Nelson, illustrations by Neil Brideau, and a comic by Colleen Frakes.

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    Worst Breakup Ever ed. by Nicki Yowell $4.00 – A Self-Publishers of Chicago (SPOC) anthology. Featuring work from Tony Jeswald , Victoria Harley, Liz Mason, Rachael Zalutsky, Brett Manning, Alex Nall and more. Compzine all about the demise of relationships from the folks of Self-Publishers of Chicago (SPOC). Contains tales of woe ranging from post-coital fish attacks, school dance dumps, ill-timed apartment leases and the urban phenomenon of “ghosting”. If you’ve ever dropped a zero for not loving your favorite late ’90s Keanu Reaves movie, this zine is for you.  This dose of catharsis goes well with a box of chocolates and a middle finger for that ex that you just can’t shake. Comics, essays, haikus, illustrations and more all with plenty of high school notebook style scrawlings.

    Pray Fuck Drive by Johnny Murdoc $8.00

    Proof I Exist #19 by Billy Roberts $2.00

    KerBloom #112 Jan Feb 15 by Artnoose $2.00

    My Complicated Relationship With Food vol 2 Reviews of Some of the Things We Put in Our Mouths by Zach $1.00

    Useless Records #1 $2.00

    228 Labels #1 by Joe Cunningham $2.00

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    Mescaline Story by Karl Noyes & David Ball $2.00 – Form follows function down the rabbit hole in this instructional nonfiction tale about a group of young friends, a spring day in Minnesota, and some happy pink pills of artisinal synthetic mescaline. Contains many trip-tips on what to do, and what to never, ever to do, if & when you find yourself down a shady lane rolling dice with Satan & hunting down The Berzerker. Includes color collages by the author. -GS


    Comics & Minis

    Top of the Line (various issues) by Daniel McCloskey, various prices

    Me Nut Nut Nut #0 by Jason Murphy $5.00

    Stripburger #64 $8.00

    Cosmic Death Trip Funnies #1 by Charlie Fogel, Plastic Crimewave and Dawn Aquarius $4.00


    Graphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks

    What a beautiful book! Illustrated by Allen Crawford

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    Whitman Illuminated: Song of Myself by Walt Whitman and Allen Crawford (Tin House) $28.95

    Totally Awesome Adventures of Superfun Yeah Yeah Rocketship #1 $10.00 – Comics anthology.

    Kick Ass vol 3 by Mark Millar and John Romita Jr. $24.99

    Dripping with Fear the Steve Ditko Archives vol 5 (Fantagraphics) $39.99

    Princess Decomposia and Count Spatula by Andi Watson (First Second) $14.99

    Walking Dead Book Eleven by Robert Kirkman and friends $34.99

    The Sculptor by Scott McCloud SIGNED EDITIONS! (First Second) $29.99 – For the same price as non-signed. Comes with a bookplate!

    Comics Crit comicsandnarration Comics and Narration by Thierry Groensteen (UnivofMiss) $30.00 – Insightful reflections in comics crit about such topics as how the conventions of the medium function, narration in autobiographical comics, rhythm in comics and the relationship of comics to contemporary art. Uses examples from Chris Ware and Crumb, among others. Comics and Language: Reimagining Critical Discourse on the Form ed. by Hannah Miodrag (UnivofMiss) $30.00 – Suggestions for a more nuanced way to interpret comics. Drawing from Life: Memory and Subjectivity in Comic Art ed. by Jane Tolmie  (UnivofMiss) $30.00 – Essays that query the roles of trust, truth, and family memoirs in autobiographical comics.

    Fiction originofthebrunists Origin of the Brunists by Robert Coover (Dzanc Books) $17.95 – The 1966 classic back in print! The survivor of a small twn coal-min explosion is aopted as a prophet by a cult that awaits the apocalypse atop the site of the disaster. The novel thatwon the William Faulkner Foundation Award for Best First Novel and instantly established Robert Coover’s fictional mastery. Coover went on to win fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Last-Days-of-Video_FINAL-e1424821419871 Last Days of Video by Jeremy Hawkins (Soft Skull ) $15.95 A “save the rec center” style novel about a dying video store against the big Blockbuster down the street. Like Breakin’ 2, but about a video renting instead of dancing. -LM

    Something Good, Something Bad, Something Dirty: Stories by Brian Alan Ellis $10.00 – A dude jumps out of a window, drunk Harry Dean Stanton look-a-likes dressed as Santa Claus, floating Mickey Mouse T-shirts, and lawn gnomes on fire and more!

    Binary Star by Sarah Gerard (Two Dollar Radio) $16.00

    Lucky Alan and Other Stories by Jonathan Lethem $24.95

    Music Books
    A Man Called Destruction: The Life and Music of Alex Chilton, From Box Tops to Big Star to Backdoor Man by Holly George-Warren $18.00

    Food
    Rappers Delight: The Hip Hop Cookbook by Joseph Inniss and friends (Dokument) $15.95 – 30 recipes inspired by hip hop icons, from Wu-Tang Clam Chowder to Public Enemiso Soup, Run DM Sea Bass and Busta Key Lime Pie.

    Politics & Revolution
    Governing By Debt: Semiotext[e] Intervention Series by Maurizio Lazzarato $13.95

    Outer Limits uncannyreader The Uncanny Reader: Stories from the Shadows, ed. by Marjorie Sandor $21.99 – Tales of doppelgangers, automatons, the supernatural, and an unstable sense of self, home and planet. Vintage Poe, Kafka, and Lovecraft but also contemporary folks like Aimee Bender, Kelly Link, Joyce Carol Oates and more.

    Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange: The First English Translation of a Medieval Arab Fantasy Collection by Malcolm C. Lyons $30.00

    Kids Stuff Where-Is-It-Coming-From-cover-300x296 Where is it Coming From? Stories Written by The Students of Boggs School, Detroit and illustrated by Dave Eggers (826Mich) $17.99

    Books by Melissa Rohr: Aquatic Coloring Book, Woodland Coloring Book $10.00 each

    Casey at the Bat and Other Diamond Tales by Willard Mullin & friends (Fantagraphics) $9.99

    Magazines

    #LuckyPeach issue 14 here at #QuimbysBookstore

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    Lucky Peach #14 Obsession $12.00
    True Crime Feb 15 Dectective Monthly $8.99
    Purple Fashion vol 3 #23 Spr Sum 15 $55.00
    Love Magazine #13 Kendall on Cara $17.99
    Shindig #45 $12.99
    Harpers Magazine Mar 15 $6.99

    Lit Journals, Chap Books & Poetry
    Zizobotchi Papers vol 1 Win 15 $10.00
    Fields Magazine #3 Win 15 $12.00
    Tijuana Book of the Dead Poems by Luis Alberto Urrea (Soft Skull) $15.95
    Court Green #12 $10.00
    Any Other Time #1 by Nick Kuntz $2.00

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    Distracting Ghosts #1 by Johnny Murdoc $8.00 – Queer smut photo zine.

  • Oyez Review Issue 42 Launch Reading Featuring Donna Vorreyer& Friends 3/20

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    The Oyez Review, Roosevelt University’s award-winning literary journal, has been in publication for over forty years. Among other readers relevant to issue #42, Donna Vorreyer will read a selection of her poems including “Compline with a Dream of Folded Arms,” which is also featured in this issue.

    Donna Vorreyer is the author of A House of Many Windows (Sundress Publications, 2013) as well as six chapbooks, most recently Encantado, a collaboration with artist Matt Kish from Redbird Chapbook (released in April 2015). She has been a repeat nominee for the Pushcart Prize, and her work has appeared in journals such as Sugar House Review, Sou’wester, Rhino, Linebreak, and Cider Press Review. She is an assistant poetry editor for Extract(s), and her second collection is forthcoming from Sundress Publications in 2016.

    For more info:

    oyezreview.wordpress.com

    donnavorreyer.com

    facebook event post for this event.

    oyezreview(at)roosevelt(dot)edu

    Friday, March 20, 7pm – Free EventDonna Vorreyer author photo

  • New Stuff This Week

    areyourmotivesRaymond Pettibon: Surfers 1985-2014: Are Your Motives Pure? by Carlo McCormick $30.00 – Almost all of the works included in this volume depict a swelling ocean, accompanied by nonsequiturs, quotations and bits of poetry in the Pettibon’s handwriting.

    Zines

    Girl Glue #2 by Mel Stringer $10.00 – Full colour cover, 32 pages, 26 wonderful female artists and dripping with inspiration. This issue features Wishcandy and Hellen Jo on the front and back cover as well as gorgeous works by Team Kitten, Kirbee Lawler, Gemma Correll, Cat Rabbit and many more!
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    Crooked Girl #2 by Rosie Accola $3.00 – Women in punk edition.

    Things I Wrote While Drinking #1 Art Writing and Weirdness by Joe Wallace $5.00

    Bamboo Scaffolding and Supports #1 by Anneli Henriksson & Elizabeth Ravn $5.00 – Photo zine

    Impulse Control Disorder #1 by Juliet Eldred $3.00

    Comics & Comix

    Birthed From the Mouth by Krystal Difronzo $6.00 – Poetic mini-comic about vessels and streams. Risograph printed in blue and pink. Hand bound with blue and pink thread. (See picture below!)
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    Half Asleep vol 3 by Beth Hetland and Kyle O’Connell $8.00

    Blood Root issues #1-#3 by Shing Yin Khor & friends (Sawdust Press) $8.00 each

    In Your Wake by Tara Abbamondi (Sawdust Press) $8.00

    Laskimooses #21 Herra Matti Hagelbergin by Sankarten Suomaa $7.00

    Laskimooses #22 Herra Matti Hagelbergin by Enteisina Aikoina $7.00

    My Petty Eyes and Boom by R. Burns $3.00

    Tails of the Cat #1 by Thomas Cody Roberts $1.00

    Victus #3 by Tyrell Cannon $8.00

    Hero Indeed Gankaritekoja by Billie Ranta $12.00

    Mowglin Peili by Oliver Schrauwen $15.00

    Graphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks

    Gris Grimly’s Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and Gris Grimly $16.99

    Scalped book 1 Deluxe Edition by Jason Aaron and RM Guera $29.99

    Art & Design

    Cinderella, Or the Little Glass Slipper by Charles Perrault, with illustrations by Camille Rose Garcia $16.99 (See below.)
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    Mushroom Collector by Jason Fulford $25.00 – Pictures of mushrooms from a flea market plus pics and text relating to Fulford’s fungi adventures, this reprinted treasure has been out of print for years and is finally back in print.

    Let’s Go Letter Hunting: A Field Guide for Typographic Expeditions by Friends of Type $16.95 – This lightly-guided journal helps aspiring typographers draw, record, and be inspired by the typography they find out in the world.

    Enchanted Forest: An Inky Quest and Colouring Book by Johanna Basford $15.95

    Eventually Everything Connects by Loris Lora (Nobrow) $40.00 – Explore the movers, shakers, and shapers of the arts of the Californian modernist movement in this accoridian-style book.

    Wayward Cognitions by Ed Templeton $45.00 – Photos spanning 20 years of this skater/youth documentarian’s extensive output.

    Fiction

    Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances by Neil Gaiman $26.99

    Mayhem

    Axes of Evil: The True Story of the Ax Man Murders by Todd C Elliott $19.95

    Money Mafia: A World in Crisis by Paul T. Hellyer $19.95

    Music Books

    The Half That’s Never Been Told: The Real-Life Reggae Adventures of Doctor Dread by Doctor Dread and Bunny Wailer $16.95

    Respect Yourself: Stax Records and the Soul Explosion by Robert Gordon $19.00 – Now in soft cover.

    Local Interest

    Chronicles of Old Chicago: Exploring the History and Lore of the Windy City (Chronicles Series) by Adam Selzer $19.95

    Politics & Revolution

    Anarchists Never Surrender: Essays, Polemics, and Correspondence on Anarchism, 1908–1938 by Victor Serge $20.00

    Eclipse and Re-emergence of the Communist Movement by Gilles Dauvé and François Martin $14.95 – The original essays included here were first written between 1969 and 1972 by people involved in the most radical aspects of the French general strike and circulated among left communist and worker circles.

    Shadow Warfare: The History of America’s Undeclared Wars by Larry Hancock and Stuart Wexler $24.95 – Now in soft cover.

    Life and Ideas: The Anarchist Writings of Errico Malatesta by Errico Malatesta and ed. by Vernon Richards $21.95

    Magazines

    Woof: Dog Eat Cinema Magazine, issues #1 & #2 $6.00 each – Gore, filth and trash of vintage porn. For lovers of Cinema Sewer.

    Paper Magazine Mar 15 $10.00

    Glamour Girl vol 1 #2 Jan 15 $15.00

    Chap Books

    Overtime Hour 35 The Night Manager by Tom Larsen $2.00

  • Daniel Clowes Signs The Complete Eightball 1-18 on 4/30

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    Daniel Clowes’s new book The Complete Eightball 1-18 (Fantagraphics Books) collects 18 issues of the beloved comic books series Eightball, originally published between 1989 and 1997, and widely considered to be one of the greatest and most influential comic book titles of all time. Before he rose to fame as the author of bestselling graphic novels Ghost World, Ice Haven, and Daniel Boring, Clowes made his name with such seminal serialized graphic novels/strips/rants as “Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron,” “Ghost World,” “Art School Confidential,” “Glue Destiny,” and so many more, including many never reprinted before now. For this 25th Anniversary, Fantagraphics is collecting these long out-of-print issues in a slipcased set of two hardcover volumes, reproducing each issue in facsimile form exactly as they were originally published.

    “[Clowes’s comics have] the perfect interplay between his tightly controlled artwork, the empty rage…simmering just beneath it, and just below that, a strangely simple yearning for simple and solid things, like, say, love…There’s poetry in every panel.” – Dave Eggers

    The work of Daniel Clowes has been featured in The New Yorker, Time, Newsweek, Esquire, GQ, and many other magazines. He was the first cartoonist to be selected for Esquire’s annual fiction issue in 1998, created the much-praised animated video for the Ramones’ “I Don’t Wanna Grow Up,” designed the poster illustration for Todd Solondz’s Happiness, and has contributed numerous memorable covers to The New Yorker.

    In 2001, the adaptation of Ghost World, based on a script by Clowes and director Terry Zwigoff, earned an Academy Award Nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay and won the Independent Spirit award. He currently has several film projects in development.

    For more info:

    fantagraphics.com/complete8ball

    danielclowes.com

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    Thursday, April 30th, 7pm – Free Event

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  • Chicago Zine Fest 2015 Registration Starts Sun, Feb 22nd

    CZF15boxRegistration for the 2015 Chicago Zine Fest opens this Sunday, February 22 at 12pm (Central Time)! Table space is first come, first served, and it sells out quickly. Click here for more info.

    CZF will be on May 8 + 9, 2015 at a few places around Chicago including tabling at Plumbers Union Hall on the Near West Side. Exhibition day is Saturday from 11am – 6pm. More info on the weekend’s events will be announced soon!

    Quimby’s is proud to co-sponsor CZF!

  • New Stuff This Week

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    Sugaria by Brett Manning $7.00 – Sweet Sugaria is 100% candy and 100% girl – the result of a union between a witch and a cake. She rides mystical pastel-toned waves of unicorns, cotton candy and chocolate bunnies in this silly, fun treat of a story. BONUS: has a sparkly cover.-NY

     

    Zines

    Bohemian Grove: The Day the Teddy Bears Have Their Picnic by Victoria Harley and Oats Redding $2.00

    The Difference Between #4 by Billy Roberts, with illustrations by Ramsey Beyer $2.00 – What’s the difference between Patti Smith vs Patty Smyth? Read to find out, along with other pairs of similiar but different things. And hand drawn illustrations! Hilarious!

    Coffee and Cigarettes #2 by CF $5.00 – A celebration of both vices!

    Lattes For Love $3.00

    Lady Grunts by Alicia Obermeyer $2.00

    Hot Bath Cold Whiskey #1 by Maggie Coughlan $7.00

    various issues of Thrifty Times by Sarah MacDonald, various prices

    Comics & Minis

    Barely Here Barely There #2 by Kellysue Calderon $3.00

    Team Work Makes the Dream Work…by Kyle OConnell and Beth Hetland $5.00

    Graphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks

    Intelligent Sentient? by Luke Ramsey (D&Q) $22.95 – Filigreed sci-fi drawings that involve a loose narrative about a society of giant people, strange art, and inexplicable scientific experiments utilizing nonexistent technology.

    Yo Miss, A Graphic Look at High School by Lisa Wilde $12.95

    Caliban Collected Volume by Garth Ennis & friends $19.99

    Zombies Vs Robots Omnibus #1 by Chris Ryall and Ashley Wood $29.99

    Trees vol 1 In Shadow by Warren Ellis & friends $14.99

    Fables Deluxe Edition Book 7 by Bill Willingham & friends $29.99

    Pies by Ian King $24.00

    Art & Design

    An Edge Effect: Art & Ecology in the Nordic Landscape by Bonnie Fortune (Half Letter Press) $25.00

    Street Craft: Guerrilla Gardening / Yarnbombing / Light Graffiti Street Sculpture / and More by Riikka Kuittinen $29.95

    Fiction

    Enjoy Me by Logan Ryan Smith $11.99

    Einstein’s Beach House by Jacob M. Appel $10.00

    Annihilation Book 1 of the Southern Reach Trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer $13.00

    Food’n’Drugs

    Mastering Homebrew: The Complete Guide to Brewing Delicious Beer by Randy Mosher $29.95

    Marijuana Nation: One Man’s Chronicle of America Getting High: from Vietnam to Legalization by Roger Roffman $15.95 – Now in soft cover. There’s a joke about rolling papers in there somewhere.

    Film Books

    The Wes Anderson Collection: The Grand Budapest Hotel by Matt Zoller Seitz $35.00

    Politics & Revolution
    Guantanamo Diary by Mohamedou Ould Slahi $29.00

    Kids Stuff

    Crazy Hair by Neil Gaiman, illustrations by Dave “Sandman Covers” McKean $6.99 – Now in soft cover.

    Magazines
    Juxtapoz #170 Mar 15 $6.99
    The Great Discontent #2 $25.00
    Offscreen #10 $22.00
    Subconscious Restaurant #3 Mexico Edition $10.00
    Raw Vision #84 $14.00
    Atlantis Risig #110 Mar Apr 15 $5.95
    High Times Apr 15 $5.99
    Modern Drunkard #59 $4.95
    Cannabis Now #13 $7.99
    Worn Fashion Journal #19 and #20 $22.00
    Monocle vol 8 #80 Feb 15 $12.00
    Cinema Retro vol 11 #31  $11.99
    Little White Lies #57 Truth and Movies  $12.99
    Highway Magazine #1 Fall 14 $12.00
    Maximumrocknroll #382 $4.99
    Mojo #255 Feb 15 $9.99
    AdBusters Mar Apr 15 $12.95
    Skin and Ink Apr 15 #156 $8.99

  • Last Minute Hasty Valentine Gift Guide

    Don't get burned this year on V-Day! Get your Valentine something'll they're hot for!

    Need to drop a few shekels on someone special this Heart Day? Fear not, dear Quimby’s shopper. We are here to guide your wayward soul.

    FOR THE ON THE FENCE FRIEND… OR IF YOU’RE ON THE FENCE AND CARE TO SEND A POINTED MESSAGE?
    –I Swallowed the Key to My Heart #3 Truer Than True Tales of Strange Romance  by Liz Prince, $5

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    Not everyone is the right one. Let them down easy with a comic all about being in a relationship and falling for someone else who scores you gratis concert tickets. You could even bake a cake with a sea creature to really bring the point home. (You’ll get it if you do end up getting this  poignant yet adorable comic).

    FOR THE NOSTALGIC BGFF (best grrlfriend foreverrrr)
    -Dude Diligence Unsolicited Messages via an Electronic Matchmaker by Marissa, $4

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    Bring it back to the days of M.A.S.H and Miss Suzy and her steamboat with this treat of a cootie catcher. Kristin/Ashlee/Jennipher/Kimberli will, like, totally love you if you buy this for herrrr. She may even share her Dr. Pepper Lip Smacker with you and give you the left half of her friendship necklace from Claire’s.

    FOR THE PERV WITH CLASSY TASTE
    -Tasteful Vintage Nude Photograph (Grab Bag), $5

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    Spice things up with a partner or make someone in your family very uncomfortable with a black and white nudie photo of a sexy lady, probably long dead. Much like a box of Valentine’s chocolates, you never know which vintage buxom goddess you’re gonna get when you order one of these babies. Yoyza, USSR, watch out for those land-attack missiles. Pow, pow, pow!

    FOR THE TRIXIE THAT YOU CAN’T HELP BUT LOVE
    -Chicago Girls by Molly Hills, $10

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    Fill their condo with love this year when you buy them this Second-City spin on “Intercourse and the Municipality,” or whatever that HBO show was called. Hot cocktails, lipstick, buff dudes, ladypal hijinks and steamy hookups pepper this novella. If you’re enamored with someone whose secret dream is having their diary turned into a major motion picture, jump on this on the immediate. We guarantee sparkly, fuchsia, freesia-scented fireworks!

    FOR THE BRASH, BOLD BOSS BITCH IN YOUR LIFE
    -Meaty by Samantha Irby, $15.95

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    Bitches Gotta Eat blogger Samantha Irby attacks love, relationships, sex and contemporary life with a golden fondue skewer of brutally honest snarkitude. Her uproarious candor in this collection of essays is sure to be just the gift for any fan of witty takedowns, real talk and reality checks. You’ll score major points with bae if you wrap it in either faux or real bacon.

    FOR YOUR FAVORITE QUEER GEOLOGIST
    -Pinups #16 Jeff by Christopher Schulz, $14

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    It’s not every day a naked dude takes a bare-ass stroll among some boulders. But, hey, we bet your partner/husband/boyfriend/buddy/local park ranger would get def down with this rad pictorial spread for V-Day. Ooh, Jeff, be careful on all those sharp, pointy rocks. Or, hey, go ahead and sit down and make yourself comfortable. We couldn’t “bear” the thought of leaving.

    FOR THE ASPIRING, LOVELORN GUITARIST
    -Love Song by Drew Brockington, $3

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    The age old way to bag any babe is by slamming a spine-tingling chord on your gee-tair. But what if, instead of a hottie, you’re up against the devil and, whoa, you’re not in Georgia but your name sure is George. And nary is there a violin to be found, just your rad-a-Stratocaster. Warm the cockles of your pining yet crushworthy musician with Brockington’s ode to the purest form of love – groupie and rocker.

    FOR THE LOVER WHO MAY OR MAY NOT LOVE FOOD MORE THAN YOU
    -My Complicated Relationship With Food by Zach, $1mycomplicfood_lgMuch like seeking the perfect partner in a sea of duds on a dating website, our protagonist Zach seems to have a hard time finding foods he actually wants to really “be” with. And why should he settle? He has discerning tastes. If this sounds at all like your giftee in question, picking through  the blueberries, onions and “pointless” brie of life, give this one a go.

    -Nicki Yowell

     

     

  • W. Todd Kaneko Reads From The Dead Wrestler Elegies on 3/5

    W. Todd Kaneko reads from The Dead Wrestler Elegies at #QuimbysBookstore on 3/5. More info at quimbys.com

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    The elegies and illustrations in Asian American poet W. Todd Kaneko’s collection The Dead Wrestler Elegies (Curbside Splendor, November 2014) cover themes of loss, love, regret, redemption, and remorse. Kaneko’s poems and illustrations blend Charles Bukowski’s raw-boned verse and Randy “Macho Man” Savage’s devastating elbow drop to mine the history of professional wrestling and examine complex relationships between fathers and sons.

    “Kaneko’s poems leap from the top turnbuckle and make the heart pirouette like the choreographed turn of the ropes. When the lights in the arenas go out, these poems, in conjunction with Kaneko’s stunning visual work, honor both these wrestlers and an era. Through Todd Kaneko’s fierce but tender elegies, we come to understand that the gods are mortal after all.”
    —Oliver de la Paz, author of Post Subject: A Fable and Requiem for the Orchard

    W. Todd Kaneko’s poetry, fiction and non-fiction can be seen in Bellingham Review, Los Angeles Review, Southeast Review, Lantern Review, NANO Fiction, The Collagist, Blackbird, The Huffington Post, Song of the Owashtanong: Grand Rapids Poetry in the 21st Century, Bring the Noise: The Best Pop Culture Essays from Barrelhouse Magazineand elsewhere. He received his MFA in Creative Writing from Arizona State University and has received fellowships from the Kenyon ReviewWriters Workshop and Kundiman. He is an associate editor for DMQ Review. Currently, he teaches in the Department of Writing at Grand Valley State University. He lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan with the writer Caitlin Horrocks.

    For more info: Visit curbsidesplendor.com or email Catherine(at)curbsidesplendor(dot).com

    Facebook event thingy here.

    Thursday, March 5th, 7pm – Free Event

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  • Chicago Zine Fest Announces 2015 Dates, Exhibition Location and Artwork!

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    Quimby’s is proud to co-sponsor Chicago Zine Fest! As per their most recent press release:

     

    CHICAGO- Chicago Zine Fest is thrilled to announce that the dates for our 6th annual festival will be Friday May 8th and Saturday May 9th!

    The exhibition will be Saturday May 9th from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Plumbers Union Hall on the near West Side. This is a new location for the fest’s exhibition. This venue will allow us to add more participants, organization and programming to the expo. Friday May 8th will host our opening panel, as well as a youth reading, and exhibitor reading (information, location and times TBA).

    Registration for the exhibition will be open on Sunday, February 22nd at 12PM CST. The festival welcomes self-publishers who release independent zines and comics. Registration occurs through our website.

    The artwork for the 2015 festival was designed by Chicago based cartoonist, illustrator, and teaching artist Corinne Mucha (maidenhousefly.com). Final artwork to be released.

    Look for future press releases closer to the festival date to include programming information, festival workshop schedule, invited guest panelists and announced festival exhibitors.

    For more information on the Chicago Zine Fest, visit our website at chicagozinefest.org.

     

    More info as developments are announced!